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Shirley was a musical prodigy who started playing piano at the age of three. (Some reports say that he started playing at two .) At nine, he studied musical theory at the Leningrad Conservatory.
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American classical and jazz pianist and composer Don Shirley is best remembered for his jazz albums for Cadence Records in the 1950s and 1960s. The Florida-born musician was a prodigy and was trained as a classical pianist. However, early in his career, he was advised to switch to jazz, as there was a chance that Americans would not accept a.
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In this film we learn that Don Shirley is a pianist of astonishing virtuosity, who has a unique way of launching off on a virtuoso classical piece before leading into a spiritual or Cole Porter.
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Don Shirley was a 20th-century Jamaican American pianist and composer who often performed with the Don Shirley Trio. A chapter of his life story was the subject of the 2018 film 'Green.
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Listen • 1:10. Cadence Records. /. When the jazz pianist Don Shirley died on April 6, his passing was not widely reported. A New York Times obituary noted that the Jamaican born virtuoso pianist was trained in the classical repertoire. Later, the impresario Sol Hurok advised Shirley "to pursue a career in popular music and jazz.".
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Donald Walbridge Shirley (January 29, 1927 - April 6, 2013) was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence.
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Born Donald Walbridge Shirley in Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 19, 1927, he was a musical prodigy of Jamaican heritage who began playing the organ when he was 3. His father was an Episcopal priest and his.
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Don Shirley was one of the greatest pianists in the world. He was an absolute prodigy. Born on Jan. 29, 1927 in Penascola, Florida, he picked up the piano when he was just two years old and studied full-time at the Leningrad Conservatory of Music in the Soviet Union at the age of nine.
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Controversial winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture, Green Book tells the tale of real-life piano virtuoso Don Shirley (played by Mahershala Ali, who won Best Supporting Actor) and the challenges he faced during a tour in the racially segregated American South of the early 1960s.
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On January 29, 1927, classical jazz pianist, chamber jazz musician and composer, Donald Wallbridge Shirley, was born in Pensacola, Florida. The Oscar™ nominated 2018 motion picture "Green Book" starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, is an interpretation of the musician's life. Shirley's parents, Edwin S. and Stella (Gertrude) Shirley, were Jamaican immigrants. His mother was […]
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January 4, 2019 by Timothy Judd During the 1960s, African-American jazz pianist and composer Don Shirley (1927-2013) left the comfort of his spacious, eclectically-appointed apartment above New York's Carnegie Hall and undertook a series of concert tours which included the segregated, Jim Crow-era south.
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Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he released in the 1950s and 60s, making him a pianist beyond easy definition. A forgotten figure in.
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In 1962, casually racist Italian-American bouncer Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Don Shirley, a gifted Jamaican-American musician, had very little in common — yet a road trip through the South led.
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Donald Walbridge "Don" Shirley was an American classical and jazz composer and pianist. Shirley was born on January 29, 1927, to Stella Gertrude Young and Edwin Samuel Shirley in Pensacola, Florida. His mother and father were Jamaican-born immigrants.
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Shirley is a central character in the movie "Green Book," which is nominated for five Oscars. Based on a true story, the film follows a concert tour that Shirley, who was Jamaican-American,.